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5th December 1771 - 16th December 1772

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Image 11 of 69516th December 1771


Middlesex
and
City & Liberty
of Westmr.
to wit


The Information of Francis Winnan< no role > (a Shoemaker & Cobler) a Lodger at Mr Jonathan Gibbs< no role >
a Chandler in Paulin Street in the parish of St George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of Westminster and County of Middx taken upon Oath
this 16th Day of December 1771 before me One of his Majesty's Justices
of the peace for the said County City and Liberty.

This Informant being upon his Oath declareth and Saith
that he hath heard read over to him the Information of John Shearwood< no role >
hereunto annexed, And declares the same to be Strictly true; And that
after the said John Shearwood< no role > had departed and left the said Charles Green< no role >
and this Informant together at the Stable Door in manner as is herein
before mentioned in the said Information of the said John Shearwood< no role > ; the
said Charles Green< no role > went into Mrs Shearwoods said Stable and turned himself
about in the said Stable and soon came out of it again, And asked this
Informant if the opposite Stable was rented or Occupied by any body This
Informant thereupon made answer That Mr Hunter a Corn Chandler had
one Stable there, and that the Bishop of Chichesters Stable was at present
Empty (as the Bishop was out of Town he beleived,) Whereupon the said
Charles Green< no role > asked this Informant to go and drink Beer with himThis Informant
said that he cou'd not go then as he had not Cleaned the Horse, but that if
he the said Charles Green< no role > wou'd go and Call for the Beer He this Informant
wou'd come to him when he had done his said Work; Accordingly the said
Charles Green< no role > went and Called for the Beer at the Coach and Horses in
Great Maddex Street And that in the Interim a Man who Sells Shoemaker
Paggs came by which detained this Informant a little as he bought 9000
pegs of him, which Delay made Charles Green< no role > come out of the House to
ask this Informant why he did not come to drink, who said he was in no
great hurry but wou'd come when he had paid for the pegs. After which he
this Informant went into ye said public House where he saw the said
Charles Green< no role > sitting down in [..] an inner room with the Land Lady, and
this Informant & Charles Green< no role > Drank together: During their being together
He this Informant asked Charles Green< no role > what was the matter with his
mouth, who made Answer he had been at a Club at Westminster with an
old fellow Servant (she Bishop's Coachman who he had lived under as Postillin)
And she had formerly beat him, and that he thought himself Man Enough
now to Engage him and that the Coachman had struck him in the Mouth
And that he said the Landlord at the Club had put him out of his Doors
for making a disturbance in his HouseThe said Informant asked him how
the Coachman did & where he now lives, to which said Charles Green< no role > answered
that the Coachman was now out of place and that all the Cloaths upon his
Back was not worth five Shillings, and that his three Curl wig was now got
into one Curl not fit to pick up out of ye dirtAs this Informant Cou'd
stay no longer he offered to pay his Share of the pot of Beer, which Charles
Green
< no role > refused, And told this Informant that he wanted a pair of Boots Soled
And heel pieced & wou'd being them next Morning & must have them done
directly; And Charles Green< no role > told this Informant that he had got just such
Frans; Winnan




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